Definitely NOT your great grandmother's quilting
10-09-2012, 08:56 AM
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Jane,
This is AMAZING!!! I love love love it. You have done a superb job and I just know Alex is going to love this quilt. I cannot thank you enough for the time, work and dedication you have put in to this quilt for me. I cannot say enough for how wonderful it has been to collaborate with you on this quilting and how exciting it is to see it come together.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you thank you thank you!!!
Huge Hugs
April
This is AMAZING!!! I love love love it. You have done a superb job and I just know Alex is going to love this quilt. I cannot thank you enough for the time, work and dedication you have put in to this quilt for me. I cannot say enough for how wonderful it has been to collaborate with you on this quilting and how exciting it is to see it come together.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you thank you thank you!!!
Huge Hugs
April
10-10-2012, 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by ghquilter53
Did you draw the objects on the fabric first? Awesome work.
Absolutely!! First I drew everything out on paper. Once I was happy with the sketch, I scanned it and emailed it to April for her input. She let me know of any changes that needed to be done. Then I shrunk my sketches on a photocopy machine and put them on overhead transparencies. I used an overhead projector with the transparencies to mark the quilt. I used a blue water soluble marker for the white parts (the chess pieces) and I used a white chalk pencil to mark the red blocks which were the reaper, the bony hand and the Ankhs, along with the lettering April requested. I only marked the basic outline, all detail work was done without marking, like the feathers in the Angel wings, the detail on the reaper and the background chessboard with the skeleton hand.
Thank you everyone for your encouragement and comments. This was definitely a different type of quilt for me and a good experience. I have now completed it and will post pics of the whole quilt tonight. If not for the lettering, the back could be a wholecloth. It looks amazing with the red and white quilting on a black background.
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